Zambia - Ethnic groups

The African community, close to 99% of Zambia's total population,
belongs to various Bantu groups. (The term "Bantu" refers
roughly to all peoples in whose language the root
ntu
means "man.") The Bemba group—37% of the African
population—inhabits the Northern and Copperbelt provinces. Other
African societies include the Tonga (19%), Lunda (12%), Nyanja (11%),
Mambwe (8%), and Lozi or Barotse (7%). In all, there are at least 73
different African societal classifications.

The Europeans, accounting for about 1% of the population in 1998, are
mainly of British stock, either immigrants or their descendants from the
UK or South Africa. Other European groups include those of Dutch,
Italian, and Greek descent. Counting Asians, mainly migrants from the
Indian subcontinent, and people of mixed race, other non-Africans
constitute only about 0.2% of the population.